Re: A variant of match-end, but after replacement?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I perform search using string-match, and then do the replacement using
> replace-match.  Now I'd like to know the position of the end of my
> replacement, so that I know where to start the next search (since I'm
> coding a variant of replace-regexp-in-string).  Is there anything like
> that in Emacs, or should I just concatenate the parts before and after
> the match with the match in-between instead of using replace-match, so
> that I can calculate that position myself?

   (let ((old-end (prog1 (match-end 1)
                    (replace-match "newtext" t t nil 1)))) 
      (do-something old-end))


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